Belgium is not able to sign off on a landmark EU-Canada free trade deal after Wallonia and other regional administrations refused to give the federal government the go-ahead, Prime Minister Charles Michel said on Monday Oct 24,2016
In an embarrassment for the 28-nation European Union(EU), Belgium has so far been the only member not to sign up to the CETA Trade Deal ,blocked by French Speaking Wallonia, which has refused to endorse it."We are not in a position to sign CETA," Michel said after brief talks with Belgium's's regional leaders in Brussels broke up without an accord despite a looming EU deadline of late Monday Oct 24,2016
"The federal government, the German community and Flanders said 'yes.' Wallonia, the Brussels city government and the French community said 'no','" he added.
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